Story about River Moon / Water / 止水上的浮花 / 水 / 祸水 / 月亮河
The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city o...
The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationhip between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restriction imposed on widows, and a man who is from the highest caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
A thesis picture. In 1938, Gandhi's party is making inroads in women's rights. Chuyia, a child already married but living with her parents, becomes a widow. By tradition, she is unceremoniously left at a bare and impoverished widows' ashram, beside the Ganges during monoon season. The ashram's leader pimps out Kalyani, a young and beautiful widow, for household funds. Narayan, a follower of Gandhi, falls in love with her. Can she break with tradition and religious teaching to marry him? The ashram's moral center is Shakuntala, deeply religious but conflicted about her fate. Can she protect Kalyani or Chuyia? Amid all this water, is rebirth possible or does tradition drown all?
